Please sign up and join the discussion between Steve Suitts and me on Zoom on Wednesday September 16. We will be talking about Steve’s new book Overturning Brown: The Segregationist Legacy of the Modern School Choice Movement. You will be amazed to learn of the true history of school choice. It is definitely not the “civil rights issue of our time,” as Trump and DeVos claim.
Steve has been involved in civil rights work throughout his career. He was founding director of the Alabama Civil Liberties Union; executive director of the Southern Regional Council; and vice president of the Southern Education Foundation. He is also the author of a biography of Hugo Black, a member of the U.S. Supreme Court Justice who played a large role in history.
Steve and I will talk for an hour, and then we will open the floor for your questions.
Will this be recorded for later viewing?
Yes. The Network for Public Education has an archive of conversations that I have had with important thinkers in the field, including the dean of the University of KY Julian Vasquez Heilig.
Sol Stern is credited with initiating the current debate about school choice in NYC. He wrote his chronology, Democracy a Journal of Ideas, 7-7-2020.
He was a op-ed writer for the Manhattan Institute (linked to Charles Koch).